Falana deplores clampdown on protestersOnyebiuchi Ezeigbo and Gboyega AkinsanmiThe Senator representing Lagos East senatorial district in the National Assembly, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, Tuesday advised President Goodluck Jonathan to resign for failing to ensure security of lives and property, in the country, which she said, was the main reason the government exists. According to the…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo The battle for the political soul of Ogun State reverberated on Tuesday at the National Conference in Abuja when a delegate representing the South-West, Senator Femi Okurounmu, told members of the Confab Committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government by that his kinsman and former President Olusegun Obasanjo did not…
National Forum of Enugu Peoples Association (NAFEPA) an umbrella body of Enugu State elite clubs and associations has urged delegates at the national conference to advocate devolution of powers with a weak centre, a strong region and a six geopolitical zones structure for the nation. In a communique issued at the end of its quarterly…
NIGER DELTA youth leaders, yesterday, described the recent call by a Northern leader, Mr. Junaid Muhammed, for a reduction of the current 13 per cent derivation to five per cent, scrapping of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and Ministry of Niger Delta, as an invitation to war. The youth leaders, Austin Ozobo, National President…
A group of Canadian activists yesterday evening came together in Ottawa in an information session to promote awareness of the plight of the 230 still-missing schoolgirls kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, and to call on the Nigerian government to act more responsibly. A spokesman of one of the groups at the…
Contrary to the claims in some quarters, the people in the video released yesterday by Boko Haram terrorists
A prominent member of the National Conference, Sen. Femi Okurounmu, yesterday caused a stir when he claimed former President Olusegun Obasanjo was rigged into office in 1999 by those he called “powers that be”.He alleged Obasanjo did not win the poll. Okurounmu, who is one of the delegates representing South-West at the ongoing conference, released…
Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State has again opposed the move by President Goodluck Jonathan to further extend the state of emergency currently in force in his state and two others in the North-East. Nyako’s opposition followed Jonathan’s request to the National Assembly to grant him power to further elongate emergency rule for six more…
FORMER governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2011 gubernatorial election in Edo State, Major General Charles Airhiavbere (rtd), has said that no amount of distraction or intimidation from the Boko Haram insurgents or any other group can stop President Goodluck Jonathan from seeking re-election in the 2015 general elections.General Airhiavbere, who is…
Former Nigeria’s President, Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, condemned the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State. Obasanjo spoke in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the state government on the adoption of a junior secondary school and a primary school…